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BY 

JOHN  R.  MOTT 


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An  Address  delivered  at  the  Student  Volunteer  Conference 
held  at  Liverpool,  England,  January  2-7,  1908 


BY 

JOHN  R.  MOTT,  M.A.,  F.R.G.S. 


STUDENT  VOLUNTEER  MOVEMENT 
125  EAST  TWENTY-SEVENTH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


This  address  was  delivered  before  the  Student  Volunteer 
Conference,  held  at  Liverpool,  England,  January  2-7 , 1908. 
It  is  reprinted  from  “Hoc  Deus  Vult,”  the  Report  of  the 
Conference,  by  permission  of  the  Student  Volunteer 
Missionary  Union  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 


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If  a  man  is  not  a  Christian  he  may  debate  whether  or 
not  he  will  become  a  Christian;  but  having  once  become  a 
Christian  there  is  no  longer  room  for  discussion  as  to 
whether  Jesus  Christ  shall  dominate  him*  Jesus  Christ  is 
our  Lord*  That  we  are  Christians  is  not  sufficient*  That 
we  are  Christians  bent  on  the  evangelization  of  the  world 
is  not  sufficient*  It  is  obligatory  that  we  be  under  the 
sway  of  Jesus  Christ  as  Lord,  that  we  be  consecrated  Chris¬ 
tians.  This  involves  the  absolute  yielding  unto  God  of  the 
lives  which  hitherto  we  may  have  tried  to  direct  and  con¬ 
trol.  It  means  the  voluntary  offering  of  ourselves  to  God 
to  do  His  will  instead  of  our  own* 

We  take  the  position  to-night  that  Jesus  Christ  should 
dominate  each  delegate  of  this  Conference.  He  should  do 
so  because  of  Who  He  is*  The  battle  will  continue  to  be 
waged  in  our  colleges  on  both  sides  the  Atlantic  as  to  the 
Person  of  Jesus  Christ;  but  the  Student  Christian  Move¬ 
ment  has  sounded,  and  will  continue  to  sound,  no  uncer¬ 
tain  note  with  reference  to  the  Deity  of  our  Lord.  The 
delegates  of  this  Conference  with  Charles  Lamb  would 
stand  were  Shakespeare  to  enter  the  room;  but  we  would 


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kneel  at  the  approach  of  Jesus  Christ*  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Perfect  Pattern.  Yes,  and  no  Unitarian  shall  more 
strongly  speak  of  the  perfections  of  that  wonderful  char¬ 
acter  than  ourselves.  Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour!  Yes,  for 
we  say  to-night  with  conviction,  not  born  of  dogmatism, 
but  with  the  knowledge  each  one  of  us  has  of  the  facts, 
that  there  is  none  other  Name  given  under  Heaven  among 
men  whereby  we  must  be  saved.  But  Jesus  Christ  is  like¬ 
wise  Lord.  Yet  one  of  the  most  alarming  things  is  to  find, 
both  in  our  colleges  and  outside  our  colleges,  so  many 
Christians  who  have  accepted  Christ  as  their  Saviour,  but 
have  not  placed  themselves  under  His  sway  as  their  Lord. 
They  have  tried,  as  Samuel  Rutherford  would  say,  to 
divide  Jesus  Christ  into  two  parts.  They  have  gladly 
availed  themselves  of  His  saving  power,  but  to  render  con¬ 
stant,  steady,  and  heroic  obedience  to  Him,  to  work  out 
their  own  salvation,  to  seek  to  follow  in  His  steps,  this,  as 
Rutherford  has  quaintly  said,  is  the  stormy  North  side  of 
Jesus  Christ;  and  they  fain  would  eschew  or  shift  it.  But 
Christ  must  have  His  rightful  place.  If  He  was  what  He 
claimed  to  be,  and  if  He  is  what  you  and  I  believe  Him  to 
be.  let  us  be  consistent  and  logical,  and  give  Him  His 
rightful  place  as  Lord.  There  is  something  inspiring  about 
the  fact  that  the  many  delegates  of  this  Conference,  though 
we  have  travelled  from  all  parts  of  the  world  to  Liverpool, 
though  we  have  come  out  from  under  the  sway  of  different 
earthly  rulers  and  forms  of  Government,  are  able  rever¬ 
ently  to-night  to  make  the  common  confession:  44  I  be¬ 
lieve  in  Jesus  Christ  His  only  Son  our  Lord.” 


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44 0  Lord  and  Master  of  us  all, 

Whate'er  our  name  or  sign 
We  own  Thy  sway;  we  hear  Thy  call, 

We  test  our  lives  by  Thine.” 

Jesus  Christ  should  dominate  us  not  only  because  of 
Who  He  is,  but  also  because  of  what  He  has  done.  By 
His  death  on  the  Cross  He  loosed  us  from  our  sins.  This 
cutting  out  of  the  sins  of  a  man's  life  was  the  most 
wonderful  miracle  which  Jesus  Christ  claimed  to  have 
performed.  We  may  not  understand  why,  we  may  not  un¬ 
derstand  how,  but  that  there  is  a  necessary  connection 
between  the  sufferings  and  death  of  Christ  on  the  Cross  and 
emancipation  from  the  power  of  sin  and  the  washing  away 
of  sin  stains  there  can  be  no  question  in  the  light  of  the  ac¬ 
cumulating  experience  of  multitudes  of  conscientious  men. 
In  other  words,  we  are  not  our  own,  but  we  are  bought  with 
a  price.  And  that  death  on  the  Cross  gave  Christ  proprie¬ 
tary  rights  in  each  Christian  in  this  hall.  Therefore  it  is 
unfair  and  dishonest  not  to  give  Him  absolute  sway  over 
us.  He  has  the  right  to  us.  Purchase  gives  title.  De¬ 
livery  gives  possession.  Christ  has  purchased  us.  Let  us 
give  Him  what  He  has  purchased.  Let  us  hand  ourselves 
over  to  Him.  I  say  by  what  He  has  done  He  has  a  right  to 
us;  and  it  is  an  exceeding  belittling  of  the  sacrifice  of  Christ 
on  the  Cross  that  it  does  not  impel  us  to  cast  ourselves  and 
all  we  have  quickly  at  His  feet,  rather  than  letting  it  sim¬ 
ply  move  us  to  reluctant  and  abridged  and  calculating  gifts 
of  parts  of  ourselves  or  of  parts  of  what  we  have.  Not  so 
was  it  with  Zinzendorff.  One  day,  walking  along  a  village 


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street,  he  went  into  a  little  church,  and  while  lingering 
there  had  his  attention  arrested  by  a  painting  that  set  forth 
the  sufferings  on  the  Cross  of  our  Saviour;  and  as  his  eyes 
were  fixed  upon  that  scene  of  suffering  love  he  noticed  this 
couplet  below: 

44  All  this  I  did  for  thee 
What  hast  thou  done  for  Me?  ” 

He  was  melted.  He  was  subjugated.  He  rose  a  changed 
man.  He  went  out  to  live  that  wonderful  life,  and  in¬ 
augurated  the  movement  which  has  planted  in  all  parts  of 
the  world  the  Moravian  Missions.  Because  of  what  He 
did  He  has  a  right  to  dominate  every  one  of  us. 

Likewise,  because  of  what  Christ's  sway  makes  possi¬ 
ble  in  the  life  of  the  Christian  He  should  dominate  us.  In 
order  to  guide  us,  in  order  to  purify  us,  in  order  to  trans¬ 
form  us,  in  order  to  energise  us;  yes,  in  order  to  use  us,  He 
must  have  the  right  of  way  with  us.  For  I  ask  you,  how 
can  Jesus  Christ  guide  a  man  who  is  not  yielded  to  Him? 
How  can  He  purify  a  man  who  has  not  consciously  put 
himself  under  His  sway?  Still  more,  how  can  He  trans¬ 
form,  how  can  He  energise,  and  how  can  He  wield?  If  we 
want  to  live  lives  of  liberty,  of  power,  we  must  be  under 
the  sway  of  that  matchless  hand.  I  fancy  that  the  reason 
why  here  and  there  in  this  Conference  there  is  a  delegate 
who  has  been  fighting  a  losing  battle  with  his  temptations, 
lies  right  here — that  we  have  not  yielded  ourselves  abso¬ 
lutely  to  His  sway.  It  is  inconceivable  that  the  Christ 
Who  conquered  death  should  not  lead  you  in  easy  triumph 


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over  any  temptation  if  yon  yield  yourself  to  His  irresistible 
power*  In  fact,  all  that  we  need  is  found  in  Christ,  and 
through  Him,  if  we  yield  ourselves  to  Him.  As  St.  Francis 
expressed  it,  “We  renounce  everything  that  we  may 
better  possess  everything.”  Or  as  Nicholas  Herman  said, 
“We  give  the  all  for  the  all.” 

One  of  the  principal  perils  in  this  matter  of  consecra¬ 
tion  is  that  we  do  not  make  a  practical  thing  of  it.  This  is 
only  tantamount  to  saying  that  we  do  not  make  our  conse¬ 
cration  actual  and  real.  That  is,  we  do  not  so  order  our 
lives  as  those  should  who  say,  Jesus  Christ  my  Lord.  We 
should  not  only  say.  Lord,  Lord,  but  should  also  do  the 
things  which  He  says.  Too  often  we  make  this  matter  of 
consecration  something  of  the  past  or  of  the  distant  future. 
We  hark  back  to  some  time  in  the  past  when  with  the  best 
light  we  had  we  did  consecrate  ourselves,  and  we  dwell  on 
that  fact  as  contrasted  with  making  a  diligent  effort  day 
by  day  to  bring  ourselves  under  the  sway  of  Christ.  Or 
we  look  to  some  distant  time;  we  vaguely  think  of  a  day 
when  we  will  perform  this  great  act,  when  we  leave  college 
perchance,  or  when  we  get  out  to  India — then  we  will  hand 
ourselves  over  to  the  mighty  working  and  control  of  Christ. 
It  will  not  do  to  limit  consecration  to  the  realm  of  discus¬ 
sion  and  theory.  It  must  be  translated  into  fact.  The 
great  mission  of  the  Church  is  to  translate  the  abstract  into 
concrete.  What  Christ  wants  is  a  life  of  constant  response 
to  His  commands  and  wishes.  That  is  consecration! 

Might  we  not  examine  ourselves  in  the  quiet  of  this 
night  before  we  pass  into  the  Sabbath  Day.  Might  we  not 


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with  great  conscientiousness  forget  those  next  to  us,  whom 
we  are  touching;  remember  there  is  One  nearer  than  hands 
or  feet,  and  expose  ourselves  to  the  scrutiny  of  the  pure  and 
sympathising  eye  of  Christ.  Let  Him  search  us.  If  we 
detect  any  part  of  ourselves  or  of  our  possessions  which  has 
not  been  yielded  to  His  sway,  let  there  be  a  practical, 
prompt,  and  glad  yielding  to  His  Sovereignty. 

Wherein  should  Christ  dominate  us?  Certainly  in  our 
bodies.  The  body  should  be  allowed  to  do  nothing  which 
is  inconsistent  with  its  being  the  abode  of  Christ's  Spirit. 
How  this  conception  should  revolutionise  habits!  We 
should  present  these  bodies  a  living  sacrifice,  not  half  alive. 
We  should  not  come  with  jaded  nerves  to  render  service  to 
our  Lord.  We  are  to  be  careful  of  our  health,  yet  not  too 
careful — that  is,  not  selfish.  I  do  not  forget  that  while 
we  should  not  burn  the  candle  at  both  ends,  the  candle 
melts  away  if  it  gives  out  light.  It  would  be  unfair  in  a 
Conference  like  this  not  to  remind  delegates  that  the  price 
not  a  few  of  us  will  pay  if  we  accomplish  the  desires  of  our 
Saviour  will  be  the  price  of  our  lives.  It  has  always  been 
so;  it  always  will  be  so.  It  is  well  that  our  consecration 
should  include  it,  that  this  matter  should  be  settled.  At 
what  a  cost  the  Kingdom  is  won!  But  how  gladly  should 
we  pay  it  if  it  be  in  the  way  of  His  appointment!  Are  you 
willing,  if  it  comes  in  the  path  of  God's  appointment,  to  lay 
down  your  life  in  inland  China,  or  by  one  of  the  great  lakes 
in  Africa,  or  on  the  plains  of  India? 

This  mastery  of  Christ's  includes  not  only  our  bodies, 
but  likewise  the  use  of  our  time.  I  sometimes  think  that 


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our  time  is  the  most  potent  talent  we  possess.  Yet  I  won¬ 
der  how  many  of  us  have  the  habit  month  by  month,  if  not 
oftener,  of  remorselessly  examining  ourselves  with  refer¬ 
ence  to  the  use  of  this  talent  of  time.  Are  we  making  the 
best  use  of  it?  Or  are  there  spaces  of  time  that  are  frit¬ 
tered  away,  and  worse,  it  may  be,  in  face  of  a  crisis  like  that 
presented  to  us  in  the  world  to-day.  How  much  some  day 
we  will  wish  we  had  utilized  our  time  better  I  Little  by 
little  your  life  is  drifting  away.  May  God  help  you  to  make 
it  a  sacrificial  offering!  Who  can  measure  the  possibili¬ 
ties  even  of  minutes  which  are  dominated  by  the  ascended 
Christ?  The  value  of  our  actions  and  of  our  silent  influ¬ 
ence  at  a  given  time  depends  upon  the  degree  of  our  union 
with  Christ  at  that  time.  How  this  should  change  the  use 
of  time! 

Then  Christ  should  dominate  not  only  the  body  and 
time,  but  our  money  as  well.  Our  money  is  so  much  of 
ourselves  or  so  much  of  somebody  else — that  is,  it  is  stored- 
up  personality.  It  is  such  a  great  power  that  I  sometimes 
think  of  money  as  omnipotent,  omnipresent,  and  eternal. 
It  has  power  greatly  to  multiply  man's  opportunities,  in¬ 
fluence,  and  fruitfulness.  We  might  solve  all  the  financial 
problems  of  Foreign  Missions  if  a  sufficient  number  of 
Christians  would  acknowledge  the  Lordship  of  Jesus  Christ 
over  their  money.  We  are  trustees,  and  in  no  sense  sole 
proprietors.  We  are  trustees  not  simply  of  a  tenth  but  of 
all  we  possess.  Christ  cannot  be  called  the  Lord  of  a  man's 
life  if  He  is  not  at  the  same  time  Lord  of  his  substance. 

I  am  alarmed  by  the  signs  I  find  on  both  sides  of  the 


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Atlantic,  not  only  amongst  the  very  wealthy,  but  even 
amongst  some  who  would  not  be  called  wealthy,  of  growing 
luxury  and  self-indulgence*  The  only  thing  that  will  meet 
the  situation  is  an  heroic  call  to  self-denial*  There  is  no 
real  giving  that  does  not  carry  with  it  the  giving  of  self* 
I  think  of  the  Haystack  Band  of  Williams  College,  with 
whose  consecration  began  the  modern  missionary  move¬ 
ment  of  the  North  American  Continent.  Those  students 
fasted  twice  each  week  and  gave  freely  out  of  their  pov¬ 
erty*  Their  lives  of  self-sacrifice  gave  them  world- 
conquering  power.  Think  of  William  Burns,  whose  path 
I  discovered  in  China  was  a  blaze  of  light*  Before  he  left 
Scotland,  as  well  as  while  he  was  in  China,  he  riveted 
upon  himself  the  habit  of  self-denial,  so  that  he  conse¬ 
crated  all  his  substance  to  the  works  of  Christ.  The  life 
of  David  Hill  should  also  be  kept  in  memory  in  a  Confer¬ 
ence  like  this.  How  carefully  he  scrutinized  every 
expenditure!  How  jealously  he  used  the  wealth  he 
inherited  for  the  progress  of  the  Kingdom!  How  simply 
he  lived  as  to  clothing,  rooms,  and  social  habits !  I  find 
one  question  in  his  daily  act  of  self-examination  was  this: 
“What  acts  of  self-denial  can  I  do  to-day?”  Remember 
also  Raymond  Lull,  who,  when  he  heard  the  call  of  Christ, 
settled  this  matter  once  for  all.  He  sold  his  property, 
which  was  not  inconsiderable,  and  gave  it  to  the  poor, 
simply  keeping  a  small  allowance  for  his  wife  and  chil¬ 
dren.  He  made  his  dedication  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ: 
“To  thee,  Lord  God,  do  I  offer  myself,  my  wife,  and  my 
children,  and  all  that  I  possess,  that  I,  myself  and  my 


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children,  may  be  Thy  humble  slaves.”  I  do  not  wonder 
that  his  life  came  with  tremendous  power  against  the 
Mohammedan  world.  The  call  to  consecration  is  a  call  to 
self-denial.  What  is  self-denial  to  you  and  me  to-day  may 
not  be  to-morrow.  Let  us  not  dream  of  great  acts  of  self- 
denial  which  we  will  perform  at  some  future  time,  but 
rather  let  us,  by  constantly  reiterated  choices  between  self- 
indulgence  and  self-denial,  live  lives  of  self-denial. 

Let  us,  moreover,  give  Christ  the  dominance  or  mast¬ 
ery  of  our  thoughts.  The  really  consecrated  Christian  is 
one  whose  every  thought  has  been  brought  into  captivity 
to  the  marvellous  obedience  of  Jesus  Christ.  That  is  only 
other  language  for  saying  that  a  man  has  the  mind  of 
Christ.  Can  you  imagine  the  mind  of  Christ  entertaining 
thoughts  like  these:  Envious  thoughts  or  jealous  thoughts! 
Jesus  Christ  as  Lord.  Selfish  thoughts!  Jesus  Christ  as 
Lord.  Impure  or  unclean  imaginations!  Jesus  Christ  as 
Lord.  Uncharitable  judgments  and  unkind  feelings  con¬ 
cerning  others!  Jesus  Christ  as  Lord.  Certainly  not! 

Let  us  be  thorough-going  at  this  point.  It  may  mark 
the  difference  between  a  life  of  mediocrity  and  a  life  of  holi¬ 
ness.  No  price  is  too  great  to  pay  to  cut  out  from  our 
mental  habits  any  of  these  tendencies  which  do  not  end  in 
God.  And  surely  I  need  only  to  state  that  the  dominance 
of  Christ  involves  the  mastery  of  the  will.  That  carries 
with  it  the  control  of  our  aims,  our  ambitions,  and  our 
choices.  Yes,  consecration  is  a  comprehensive  thing. 
Jesus  Christ  moves  amongst  us  and  asks  for  all,  He  wants 
all.  I  say  it  reverently,  and  hope  it  does  not  jar  against 


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you,  that  we  cannot  be  consecrated  in  water-tight  com¬ 
partments;  that  is,  we  cannot  say.  Lord,  be  Master  of  my 
mind,  but  let  me  do  as  I  wish  with  my  body*  We  cannot 
say,  Lord,  be  Master  of  my  money;  but  let  me  settle  the 
question  of  my  life-work*  No,  Christ  will  not  be  played 
with*  He  is  either  Lord  of  all,  as  has  often  been  said,  or 
not  Lord  at  all.  He  wants  us  undivided;  and  we  will  be 
dealing  with  the  fringes  of  this  subject  to-night  if  we  allow 
the  question  to  linger  in  any  mind  that  any  mere  gifts  of 
time,  money,  influence,  nervous  energy,  thoughts,  and  will 
compass  the  subject.  Christ  wants  the  entire  personality, 
in  all  its  relationships,  through  all  time.  He  wants  us  not 
only  for  all  time,  but  at  all  times*  I  like  to  think  of  conse¬ 
cration  not  so  much  as  a  great  act  at  the  beginning  (it  is 
that) ;  but  likewise  a  series  of  acts,  a  multiplying  series  of 
acts  from  year  to  year*  Christ  wants  not  only  a  surrend¬ 
ered  will*  He  wants  much  more,  a  willing  self-surrender — 
that  is,  a  course  of  life*  True  consecration  is  thorough¬ 
going*  McCheyne,  who  lived  the  life  of  consecration  if 
any  one  ever  did,  said,  “ 1  ought  statedly  and  solemnly  to 
give  my  heart  to  God.”  Henry  Martyn,  whose  life  could 
be  summed  up  as  a  remorseless  denial  of  self,  time  and  time 
again  dedicated  himself  in  language  like  this:  “Once 
more  would  I  resign  this  body  and  soul  to  the  blessed  dis¬ 
posal  of  His  holy  will.”  And  Thomas  a  Kempis,  that 
voice  that  came  up  from  close  association  with  Christ,  one 
day  put  the  question  and  answered  it:  “How  often  must  I 
perform  this  act  of  solemn  resignation,  and  in  what  circum¬ 
stances  is  this  self  thus  to  be  relinquished?  .  *  .  Al- 


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ways,  yea,  every  hour,  as  well  in  small  things  as  in  great/’ 
This  takes  ns  to  the  heart  of  the  very  deepest  lesson  of  life. 

Ottr  consecration  extends  to  all  places.  Surely  conse¬ 
cration  carries  with  it  that  we  are  at  the  disposal  of  Christ 
wherever  we  are.  Yet  a  friend  of  mine  said,  “Anywhere, 
0  Christ,  save  to  China.”  But  it  turned  out  that  God  sent 
him  to  China.  Are  you  ready  to  go  to  India?  If  not,  I 
am  very  thankful  that  for  that  additional  reason  to-mor¬ 
row  is  free  from  meetings,  that  we  are  going  to  have  a  day 
in  which  it  is  going  to  be  possible  to  fight  battles.  May 
God  let  not  any  of  us  come  up  to  night-fall  without  having 
yielded  to  the  sway  of  Christ!  Remember  also  that  it  is 
consecration  to  God,  and  not  to  a  field,  not  to  an  occupa¬ 
tion.  How  much  better  to  surrender  to  our  loving  Father 
than  to  struggle  to  get  to  India,  or  to  struggle  to  stay  at 
home  against  a  reluctant  will !  Grace  is  abundantly  given 
for  a  special  act  if  we  have  performed  the  comprehensive 
act  of  saying  that  in  everything  we  will  yield  to  His  sway. 

This  matter  of  consecration,  I  want  to  say  in  this  last 
quiet  moment,  is  no  light  thing.  It  is  a  summons  of  our 
ascended  Lord  to  each  one  of  us  to  go  with  Christ  to  Geth- 
semane,  and  if  need  be  to  Calvary.  At  the  Edinburgh 
Conference,  you  will  remember,  missionaries  were  quoted 
as  saying  that  we  needed  40,000  missionaries  to  evangelize 
the  world.  I  want  to  say  to-night  that  it  is  not  necessary 
to  have  40,000  missionaries.  One  thing  is  necessary,  and 
that  is  that  every  student  volunteer  who  presses  to  the 
front,  and  every  Christian  student  who  stays  at  home,  be  a 
Christ-conductor.  Much  is  said  in  every  Conference  about 


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the  greatest  need.  But  are  we  not  agreed  that  the  one  great 
need  is  that  more  of  Christ  be  released?  And  how  is  more 
of  Christ  to  be  released?  Is  it  not  invariably  through  un¬ 
hindered,  open,  and  pure  human  channels?  We  recall  to¬ 
night  the  words  which  Moody  heard  in  Britain  forty  years 
ago,  words  which  moved  him  as  no  other  words  he  ever 
heard,  words  which  transformed  his  life.  A  humble  Chris¬ 
tian  said  in  his  hearing:  “The  world  has  yet  to  see  what 
God  will  do  for  and  through  the  man  who  is  wholly  conse¬ 
crated  to  Him.”  “A  man,”  thought  Mr.  Moody,  “not  a 
great  man,  not  a  rich  man,  not  an  eloquent  man — a  man. 
I  am  a  man.  It  lies  with  the  man,  whether  or  not  he  will 
or  will  not  make  the  entire  consecration.” 

That  is  a  startling  conception  in  the  Old  Testament 
which  represents  God  as  looking  up  and  down  the  earth  to 
find  here  and  there  a  man  whose  heart  is  right,  so  that  He 
can  show  Himself  strong  toward  that  man.  Yes,  Christ 
moves  amongst  us  in  this  Conference  to  clothe  Himself 
with  men  and  women.  I  repeat  it:  He  desires  to  clothe 
himself  with  men  and  women  in  this  Conference;  and  what 
will  not  take  place  in  the  Universities  of  Britain  and  on  the 
Continent  and  in  America  and  in  the  Far  East  if  we  let 
Him  do  so.  God  grant  that  none  of  us  may  sink  down  into 
a  life  of  mediocrity  when  it  is  possible  for  us  to  rise  in  new¬ 
ness  of  life,  and  henceforth  to  show  forth  His  excellencies 
and  to  manifest  His  power.  May  our  loving  Lord,  before 
Whom  all  idols  must  fall,  actually  conquer  us,  actually 
subject  us!  May  the  constraining  memories  of  His  Cross, 
and  the  love  wherewith  He  hath  loved  each  one  of  us,  lead 


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us  at  this  hour  to  hand  ourselves  over  to  Christ  wholly,  ir¬ 
revocably,  and  gladly,  henceforth  to  do  His  will  and  not 
our  own! 


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